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Medium · 6.0 CVE-2026-18677 EUVD-2026-57424GHSA-6p7w-xxw9-j47f

Kong Mesh: a dataplane token without a workload binding can claim any workload's SPIFFE identity

Published Aug 12, 2026 · Updated Aug 13, 2026 · Assigned by Kong

Description

In Kong Mesh running in universal mode with a MeshIdentity whose SPIFFE ID path template derives from the dataplane's kuma.io/workload label, the XDS authenticator in kuma-cp validates that label only when the dataplane token is bound to a workload. Workload binding is optional, so a dataplane presenting a tags-bound token can register with kuma.io/workload set to any value and obtain another workload's SPIFFE identity.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Kong Kong Mesh 2.13.0 – < 2.13.10, 2.14.0 – < 2.14.2 2.13.10

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